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This is a finding aid. It is a description of archival
material held in the Wilson Library at the University of North Carolina at
Chapel Hill. Unless otherwise noted, the materials described below are
physically available in our reading room, and not digitally available
through the World Wide Web. See the
section for more information.

This collection was rehoused and a summary created with support from the National
Endowment for the Humanities; this finding aid was created with support from NC ECHO.

Thomas Brevard was a teacher of North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, and Kentucky. His notebook contains a diary, 1804 and 1830, accounts, poems, and other writings
of Brevard; and minutes of the Union Library Society, Lebanon, Tenn., 1817-1824, and
of the Philalethian Debating Society, 1826-1829. Also included are accounts and commonplace
entries of John J. Brevard, son of Thomas Brevard.

Copyright is retained by the authors of items in these papers, or their descendants,
as stipulated by United States copyright law.

Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], in the Thomas Brevard Notebook, #85-z, Southern Historical
Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Alternate Form of Material

Typed transcription of notebook available.

Acquisitions Information

Received prior to 1940.

Additional Descriptive Resources

A copy of the original finding aid for this collection is filed in folder 1.

Sensitive Materials Statement

Manuscript collections and archival records may contain materials with sensitive or
confidential information that is protected under federal or state right to privacy
laws and regulations, the North Carolina Public Records Act (N.C.G.S. §
132 1 et seq.), and Article 7 of the North Carolina State Personnel Act (Privacy of
State Employee Personnel Records, N.C.G.S. § 126-22 et seq.).
Researchers are advised that the disclosure of certain information pertaining to
identifiable living individuals represented in this collection without the consent
of those individuals may have legal ramifications (e.g., a cause of action under
common law for invasion of privacy may arise if facts concerning an individual's
private life are published that would be deemed highly offensive to a reasonable
person) for which the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill assumes no
responsibility.

The following terms from
Library of Congress Subject
Headings
suggest topics, persons, geography, etc. interspersed through the
entire collection; the terms do
not usually represent
discrete and easily identifiable portions of the collection--such as folders or
items.

Clicking on a subject heading below will take you into the University Library's
online catalog.

The collection is a notebook containing a diary, 1804 and 1830, accounts, poems, and
other writings of Brevard; and minutes of the Union Library Society, Lebanon, Tenn.,
1817-1824, and of the Philalethian Debating Society, 1826-1829. There are also accounts
and commonplace entries of John J. Brevard, son of Thomas Brevard. The collection
also includes a typed transcription of the notebook.